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TheDarkChristian:

6-14-01

telemarketers: fuck you

About a month ago, a lady calls with some interesting news. Apparently just for owning a credit card (debit, actually), I have been entered in a drawing for a lot of money and am entitled to a free gold watch. High on the term "free", I agree to answer some simple survey questions. Then she starts telling me about a weekly magazine that I will be receiving free. Sounds great! I heartilly (sp?) agree. Then she starts asking me what other magazines I want. Well, I start to get skeptical, but their selection is good, and they have Popular Science and Popular Mechanics (which I had been planning to purchase anyway). After all is said and done and I have given them my credit card number (big mistake!) they verify all the information with their supervisor, make sure I have all the info I want, and bid me a good day before hanging up.

*whew* That was a long story.

But that's just the beginning. The price they had quoted me (about $60) was not a yearly price, but a monthly one. Well, I decide to just bite the bullet and learn my lesson. Besides, for $60/month, I'm getting four magazines (about regular price) for two years (making it about half price). So just this once I'll just learn from my mistake, and vow never to do such a thing again.

Well, a couple days ago, some guy calls me with some interesting news. Apparently just for owning a credit card, I have been entered in a drawing for a lot of money and am entitled to a free gold watch. (sound familiar?) I immediately whip out my paperwork from the other deal I had signed up for (including my bank notice, indicating a charge of approximately $60 for the middle of last month) and start telling the guy that I had already signed up for the same, or a similar, deal. He asks which magazines I had signed up for, then hands me to his supervisor. Apparently the moron had signed me up for the same magazines, as the supervisor wanted to confirm my order. (what order?) I tell him I have already signed up for it, and he asks which company.

"Well, we don't have anything to do with them," he tells me. Well, moron, apparently you are competing for the same crowd in exactly the same way, and they beat you to the punch.

Anyway, after telling the guy at least five times that I had signed up for a similar deal with another company, he finally figures it out. "You don't want to sign up for the magazines? Why didn't you just say so in the first place?" he says angrily, and hangs up on me. Asshole.

So let me warn you, telemarketers. Don't bother calling me. I feel the need for revenge, and have some interesting ideas. If you're going to waste my time, I'm going to make you pay for it. Dearly.

Fuck you all.

To the rest of you, today's strip is one of the last in the FF3 series. I have discovered a much easier (and faster!) way of making customized sprites for Remmie and I in various games, and am currently working on some Chrono Trigger and Megaman X images and strip ideas. Who knows? Before long, we may have enough strips to start doing guest strips. We'll see.

Until then, enjoy. I know it isn't really that funny, but just stick with us. We're kinda stuck in a storyline right now, and will be free to do the good jokes later.

About the Gameboy Advance. Tycho had some harsh things to say about it, and I'm afraid I have to agree with his diagnosis. The GBA is sweet, but it his hard as hell to see in the non-backlit, ultra-reflective screen. But Castlevania frickin' rules. And Iridion really sucks. >.< I'm gonna trade it in tomorrow for Bomberman. Also, if you haven't played Tony Hawk 2, you're missing out! It is 5w33t! Not to mention the dodge ball game... and I haven't played any others yet. ^_~

~TDC, who has enough magazines, thank you very much.